Fantasy

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

Circe

by Madeline Miller

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

Six of Crows

by Leigh Bardugo

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

An Ember in the Ashes

by Sabaa Tahir

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

Fourth Wing

by Rebecca Yarros

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

The Cruel Prince

by Holly Black

The House in the Cerulean Sea

by TJ Klune

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

Iron Flame

by Rebecca Yarros

Onyx Storm

by Rebecca Yarros

Red Queen

by Victoria Aveyard

The Color of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Young Ged, a goatherd on the island of Gont, discovers he has an extraordinary gift for magic. Sent to the school of wizardry on Roke, his arrogance unleashes a terrible shadow upon the world — one he must face alone across the vast archipelago of Earthsea.

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction & Literature Fantasy Science Fiction

Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space and time to rescue Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while working on a mysterious project called a tesseract.

Circe

by Madeline Miller

In the house of Helios, god of the sun, a daughter is born — but Circe is a strange child, not powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft. Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her craft and encounters legends of mythology.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

Orphaned Harry Potter discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and is whisked away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There he makes friends, learns magic, and uncovers the mystery of his parents' deaths and the dark wizard who caused them.

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building. Its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands of statues. Within it are an ocean, clouds, and tides. Piranesi lives there, cataloguing its wonders. But when messages begin to appear, he must unravel the mystery of who he is and how he came to be there.

Six of Crows

by Leigh Bardugo

Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker assembles a crew of six dangerous outcasts for an impossible heist — breaking into the most heavily guarded prison in the world. Each member carries their own secrets and scars in this gritty fantasy set in the Grishaverse.

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on an unexpected journey to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent.

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

On the shattered plains of Roshar, a war rages for gemhearts that power magical fabrials. Kaladin, a former soldier turned slave, struggles to survive and protect his men. Meanwhile, scholar Shallan seeks an apprenticeship with the heretic Jasnah Kholin, and highprince Dalinar is haunted by visions of an ancient past.

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

In the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, noble families vie for control of the Iron Throne while an ancient evil stirs beyond the Wall in the frozen north. When Lord Eddard Stark is called to serve as the king's advisor, he uncovers a web of intrigue that threatens to tear the realm apart.

An Ember in the Ashes

by Sabaa Tahir

In a Rome-inspired fantasy world, Laia is a Scholar who infiltrates the brutal Blackcliff Military Academy as a spy to save her brother from prison. There she crosses paths with Elias, a soldier who wants nothing more than to be free of the empire he serves.

American Gods

by Neil Gaiman

Shadow Moon, recently released from prison, is hired as a bodyguard by the mysterious Mr. Wednesday — who turns out to be an old god preparing for war. Across the American landscape, the gods that immigrants brought to the New World are losing power to modern deities of technology, media, and consumerism.

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

In an alternate 1830s Britain, Robin Swift, an orphan brought from Canton, is trained at Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. There, translators power the Empire's magic by engraving silver bars with pairs of words whose meanings don't quite match. As Robin learns what his work is used for, he has to choose between Babel and the people it helps exploit.

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

In a land inspired by West African mythology, Zelie Adebola remembers when her mother and other maji were hunted down by a ruthless king. Now Zelie has one chance to bring magic back to her people — but a rogue princess and a vengeful prince stand in her way.

Fourth Wing

by Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was raised to become a scribe, but her mother, the commanding general, orders her into Basgiath War College to train as a dragon rider. Cadets who fail die, the dragons choose who they bond with, and one of the most dangerous riders, Xaden Riorson, has every reason to hate her family. The first book in the Empyrean series.

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The Apocalypse is coming, and an angel and a demon who've grown rather fond of humanity team up to prevent it. The only problem? The Antichrist has been misplaced. A wickedly funny tale of Armageddon, friendship, and the power of a nice cup of tea.

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

Alice Law, a graduate student in magick at Cambridge, needs her advisor's recommendation for her career, but Professor Jacob Grimes has died in a magical accident. So she sets out to travel through Hell and bring his soul back, joined by her academic rival, Peter Murdoch.

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he's the son of Poseidon and is thrust into a world of Greek gods and monsters. Accused of stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt, Percy must journey across America to find the real thief and prevent a war among the gods.

The Cruel Prince

by Holly Black

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she was stolen away to the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Now seventeen, she wants nothing more than to belong there despite being mortal. But the cruel prince Cardan makes her life a nightmare — until a dangerous bargain changes everything.

The House in the Cerulean Sea

by TJ Klune

Linus Baker is a by-the-book caseworker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. When he's sent to a mysterious orphanage on a remote island to evaluate six dangerous magical children and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, Linus must decide whether to follow the rules or follow his heart.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

France, 1714. A young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever — but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. For 300 years, Addie LaRue leaves her mark on the world in subtle ways, until one day she stumbles into a bookshop and meets a young man who remembers her name.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch

In a fantasy world inspired by Renaissance Venice, orphan Locke Lamora grows up to become the leader of the Gentleman Bastards — a band of con artists who swindle the nobility out of their fortunes. But when a mysterious figure called the Grey King threatens everything Locke holds dear, the stakes become deadly.

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss

Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen — from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic.

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped tents awaits an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. Behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway between two young magicians trained since childhood to duel.

The Eye of the World

by Robert Jordan

In a world where the Dark One stirs in his prison, five young villagers from the Two Rivers are forced to flee their home when monstrous Trollocs attack. Led by the mysterious Aes Sedai Moiraine, they embark on a journey that will determine the fate of the world — and reveal that one of them is the Dragon Reborn.

Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

After a year of hard labor in the salt mines, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom — if she can win a deadly competition to become the King's Champion. But dark forces are stirring in the castle, and the competition may be deadlier than anyone imagined.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

by Sarah J. Maas

Nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods to feed her struggling family, and a fae creature arrives to demand payment: she must leave her home and live in Prythian, the faerie lands beyond the wall. At the estate of the masked High Lord Tamlin, she finds a court under a curse and a darkness spreading across the land. The first book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Iron Flame

by Rebecca Yarros

The second book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series picks up right after Fourth Wing. Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year carrying secrets that could get her and her dragons killed, while the college's new leadership sets out to break her.

Onyx Storm

by Rebecca Yarros

The third book in the Empyrean series, after Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. With the war against the venin closing in, Violet Sorrengail and her fellow dragon riders leave the walls of Basgiath and look for allies beyond Navarre's borders, while old secrets about her family and her bond with Xaden come to a head.

Red Queen

by Victoria Aveyard

In a world divided by blood — Silvers with superhuman abilities rule over the common Reds — Mare Barrow discovers she possesses a deadly power of her own. Forced to masquerade as a Silver princess, she becomes entangled in a web of betrayal and revolution.

The Color of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

On the Discworld — a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle — the incompetent wizard Rincewind is tasked with guiding Twoflower, the Disc's first tourist, through a world of magic, mayhem, and murderous intent.

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks, Washington, she falls irresistibly in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who turns out to be a vampire. Their forbidden romance ignites a dangerous chain of events that threatens both their worlds.